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tv

Roger Allam and Nancy Carroll make an urbane crime-solving duo

It's 1986, and a Melbourne TV news team are battling rival stations and each other

A mysterious woman caller turns an ambulance dispatcher's life inside out
film

Chasteningly mundane history of punk venue Max's, plus Sid Vicious' last stand

Daniel Watson and Toyah Willcox shine as a disabled man and his doughty mam

Innocence ends abruptly for a group of school leavers in Emilie Aussel's promising directorial debut
new music

A thrilling reminder of what hip-hop can be when you go back to your roots with absolute focus
classical

Romantic favourites served with flair and care

A luscious musical tour with the cream of young players

This splendid institution's CEO explains its egalitarian role in the musical ecosystem
opera

Total triumph for replacement water-nymph Elin Pritchard

A Tarantino-style Ring cycle offers many inspired scenes, but little coherence or depth

Savoy turkey almost flies, in a spirited new staging
theatre

Theatre about theatre? There's plenty of it at the Fringe: here are two fine examples

Francesca Martinez’s debut play about disability politics entertains - and frustrates

Three shows at the Traverse take in gritty realism and no-holds-barred farce
dance

Completion of the city’s big Dante project with 'Paradiso' is only one of three wonders

At last, the pan-African production of Bausch's landmark choreography arrives on the London stage

An explosive restaging of the original dance drama
comedy

Exploring Welsh identity; rollerskating diaries; New Zealand improv

A sad adieu, a pandemic experience and the awfulness of hen dos

The world's biggest and best arts festival begins
Books

AI meets Penelope meets Ada Lovelace in this meditation on text, tissue and textile

Powerful poems of pilgrimage, loss and belonging along the Camino de Santiago

The ghosts gather as the miniaturist returns in Burton’s latest instalment
visual arts

Ecological dirty-realism plus mass-media overload in an idyllic Cornish setting

A slow reveal of the painter dubbed the American Matisse

In love and war: one of England's great watercolourists reappraised
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